An interesting feature quite useful in everyday work: I am using Ubuntu as my secondary desktop and it is quite heavily loaded. So sometimes it freezes, I mean the X windows becoming unresposive. Sometimes I can not even close the X server or switch to console. The hard reset was my only option in such situations since today. Today someone showed me the neat keyboard trick. Looks like this keyboard commands are serviced on pretty low level and they work in situations like this. It's enough to: hold ALT + SysRq and press s (that will sync your disks), then hold ALT + SysRq and press u (which will umount your disks) and then finally hold ALT + SysRq and press b (which should the reboot your system). Did you know? I didn't so I am writing it down for further reference.
This blog is not dedicated to any partuicular project or activity but kind of personal diary. I like to write, sometimes too much, so this could be the place I can safely do it without disturbing unwilling readers. I also need a place to save some solutions for problems I encounter in my work so expect some technical things here. They might be not very helpful for others or not very sophisticated ones but I be glad if someone else can benefit from them too.
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Disclaimer: What LWA stands for in my posts?
LWA stands for Lazy (Lame?) Windows Admin which describes me quite good. I am not a natural born admin. I do not have technical education background. But I happen to work as one so I am using my own, not always the wisest or most efficient ways to cope with the Windows reality. And then some of those ways I am going to put here. For reference in the future for me, because I have quite poor memory, and for others. Others can benefit from those ways if they want. But others are concider to be informed that what they find here is not a fully tested and trusted sollutions and there is a good possibility that there are probably better sollution somwhere in the net. So please do not complain, please comment. Comments are welcome of course since I would gladly benefit from those better solution if you have one :-).
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